On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:15 AM, Karl Denninger wrote:
No management tool = el-sucko, because you can't rebuild a failed
disk or
even shut the alarm on the board off!
This is precisely the reason I have dropped using Adaptec
controllers. The most recent ones cannot be managed with the
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
If you're asking why I don't turn a production environment over to
being a freebsd-unstable-testbed, I can't really answer that
question in a way you'd understand (if you were asking that question)
If you don't have an identical setup to test
On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
If this is so important to you - contribute to the project and/or hire
a FreeBSD developer.
I've got a strange problem with jails and I've been trying to hire a
freebsd developer, but I can't seem to get anyone to a) call me back.
I got
On May 21, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
Assuming you're using a modern FreeBSD (version number would be
useful),
/dev does not live on a file system. It exists as its own file
system,
controlled by devfs. Check the man page for devfs for details.
I'm using
While we're on the topic of jail resource limits, I think I'll ask my
question again... I asked last month but got no response...
I've got a jail server (FreeBSD 6.3/amd64) which runs a bunch of web
site development environments. There is an apache or lighttpd running
in each jail as
On May 21, 2008, at 4:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant
reboots on systems with 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot
occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them
told me that they can boot if
On May 21, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
I attempted this:
# mkdir /dev/foo
mkdir: /dev/foo: Operation not supported
Any suggestions (besides creating it elsewhere, of course)?
Assuming you're using a modern FreeBSD (version number would be
useful), /dev does
On May 18, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
Hashed per flow, (srcip^destip^srcport^dstport) mod
curr_dyn_buckets, so
packets for both directions of a given flow hash to the same
bucket. In
the case you mention, you could likely expect reasonable
distribution by
src_ip/src_port.
How are the buckets used? Are they hashed per rule number or some
other mechanism? Nearly all of my states are from the same rule (eg,
on a mail server for the SMTP port rule).
How should I scale the buckets with the max rules? The default seems
to be 4096 rules and 256 buckets. Should
On May 15, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
Having said that the default tunable of 256 state entries is
probably quite low for use cases other than home/small office NAT
gateway.
The deafult on my systems seems to be 4096. My steady state on a
pretty popular web server is
I had a box run out of dynamic state space yesterday. I found I can
increase the number of dynamic rules by increasing the sysctl
parameter net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max. I can't find, however, how this
affects memory usage on the system. Is it dyanamically allocated and
de-allocated, or is it
I've got a jail server (FreeBSD 6.3/amd64) which runs a bunch of web
site development environments. There is an apache or lighttpd running
in each jail as user httpd (same UID on base system and each jail).
On the jail host, I counted 231 processes owned by httpd.
If I try to start an
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Heiko Wundram wrote:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/test-descriptor-passing.c
Again it works in FreeBSD 6, but not in FreeBSD 7 (albeit with
ECONNREFUSED not EBADF).
Any ideas?
Works fine on 7.0-STABLE from end of last week (i.e., doesn't core-
On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Ed Maste wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:42:40AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
I have just built a new SunFire X4100 server with an Adaptec 2230SLP
RAID card using FreeBSD 6.2-PRE kernel (from September 20).
Everything is working extremely well except I cannot run
On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Michael Grant wrote:
My server is live and serving customers. I can't afford to take the
box down for a whole day while I upgrade ports. Is there any
intelligent way to do this?
Here's what you do:
1) take one server at a time down from the load balancer/worker
On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote:
I've recently upgraded my 6.2-STABLE workstation to RELENG_7,
and I'm now experiencing system lockups that seem to be caused
by the hifn(4) driver.
I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en-
cryption. Reading from a GELI
On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I want to use nanobsd to generate optimized FreeBSD-7.0-release
images on USB
pen drive. I generated images with nanobsd. It works on a standard
pc with an
old Celeron 2.4Ghz but on a brand new supermicro X7SBi with a Core 2
Quad it
On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Cristiano Deana wrote:
I'm using a 7-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 1955, using a mpt driver to
manage a hardware raid1.
Is there any way to check the status of the raid?
I've been wondering this as well. My Sun X4100's have LSI SAS mirror
controllers in them and
On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Chris wrote:
Ahh thats useful, on the occasions I have remotely installed freebsd
over linux I have always failed due to incorrectly guessing the hd id
and as such a wrong fstab, if I know it will always be ad0 and ad1 and
so on it makes this much easier.
I much
On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Samplonius wrote:
And is there some really stability fear about FreeBSD on x86-64?
Seems just the same as i386.
Some poorly written software fails to run properly in 64-bit
environment. I have one such package, and my solution was to compile
it on a
On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
What was broken that required this to be fixed?
Inconsistent use of what NO_FOO= meant. Some places only checked if
it
was set, other places required it to be set to yes, so NO_FOO=no
might disable FOO or it might not. The WITHOUT_* /
On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:30 AM, navneet Upadhyay wrote:
Hi ,
I have following questions.
1. Which is the latest release of FreeBSD.
2. When was it released?
3. What is the patch level?
4.What is the stability
See http://www.freebsd.org/ for above. Short answer: 6.3 released
On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
There is a cross-reference to src.conf(5) at the end of
make.conf(5), but IMO the connection needs to be made more explicit.
Anyone want to take that on? This should also go in the release
notes if it's not already.
So do I need to move my
On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us?
Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in
loader.conf or can it happen later?
loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).
On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:09 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
*: This is the default behavior for 7.0, I have not encountered the
problem mentioned above on any 1950/2950 boxes so far I have tested.
I will enable MSI by default on 6.x now (so will take affect for 6.4).
We've also enabled it by default
On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
My gut feeling is that it's not an architecture issue but more an
interoperability issue between the Nagios threading code and the
libpthread()
threading library.
As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ...
my
On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
arcconf seems to be reliable (and a native amd64 binary), except for
the aforementioned hanging-on-exit issue with -RC1. On -BETA4 it's
fine. Google for check_icp if you need a Nagios plugin written
around arcconf (it needs only minor edits
On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:
Command Error: The miniport device driver is too old to work with
the current AFAAPI.DLL.
In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec
card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec RAID
cards is
What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build
libmilter using poll() instead of select()?
There is discussion on the postfix mailing list that some high-load
performance issues could be solved by switching this, but the fix
was to hack the libmilter header file to
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Gregory Shapiro wrote:
What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build
libmilter using poll() instead of select()?
Add this to /etc/make.conf:
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL
[ ... ]
Note that bug 118824 has already asked for this to
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Gregory Shapiro wrote:
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL
Do I want this one or just -DSM_CONF_POLL ?
I'm running into issues with postfix failing to connect to the milter
because it is too busy (specifically the dkim milter) and one theory
was to use poll
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
I'm not aware of any reason to avoid Adaptec RAID cards specifically
on
amd64 now; there were a number of problems in the past but they should
be addressed now.
My main concern is that there is no *reliable* way to monitor the
status of an
On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec
card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec
RAID
cards is a bad thing for production systems, and IMO should be
avoided.
Well, yeah, the error message
On Dec 22, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Michael Proto wrote:
I purchased a Jetway J7F4K1G2E w/VIA Eden 1.2GHz cpu/motherboard combo
(http://e-itx.com/jetway-j7f4k1g2e-mini-itx-motherboard.html) that I'm
trying to get working with the FreeBSD padlock driver. Based on what I
see from the manufacturer's CPU
On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:
I'm running 6.2-REL. The old kernel was -p5, now without the zero
copy sockets, i'm running -p8. I'll know in a couple of days if
this is our solution.
For the archives:
Removing zero copy sockets seems to have fixed the issue
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Chris Shenton wrote:
Dell's got a decent deal on their PowerEdge T105 box with an 1.8GHz
AMD
dual-core Opteron, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, and Gigabit ether: $350.
Dell's got a great return policy. If it doesn't work, report here and
send it back. If it does
On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Michael Proto wrote:
Not that this solves your problem, but doesn't the padlock crypto
engine
only provide acceleration for AES symmetric encryption? From the man
page:
The boot messages on my C7 based system shows this:
PadLock: HW support loaded for
On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Quan Qiu wrote:
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no is also required to avoid sshd
accepting keyboard-interactive/pam.
I don't think this setting matters for PermitRootLogin without-
password. At least the default on FreeBSD 6 works as expected when
On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
notification.
In the meantime, your best bet is to disable ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS.
There is a chance this was a recent regression, previously in 7.0
they were believed to work.
I'm running 6.2-REL. The old kernel was -p5, now without the
I've got a Dell 1750 box that was rock-solid stable running 4.11 for a
couple of years now operating a pretty busy website backend. A month
or so ago we wiped it clean and repurposed it to run a different
website running Drupal with a Varnish front-end cache using FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE-p5.
On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Vlad GALU wrote:
vmio = 1
offset = Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93
(kgdb)
Do you happen to have ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS in your kernel config?
Yes, I do. Are they known to be bad under certain loads or just in
general. I don't have this
On Nov 13, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Kip Macy wrote:
In the meantime, your best bet is to disable ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS.
Thanks for the info. I'm putting the new kernel in place and will see
what happens and report back.
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On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
In any case, since it was not in effect last year, it would be very
unlikely that most FreeBSD users would have noticed it then.
s/last year/last spring/g :-(
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On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
And, is the ACPI subsystem likely to be the source of the problem?
I've had several systems in which I've needed to disable the ACPI
timer component and then the system worked fine. in /boot/loader.conf:
debug.acpi.disabled=timer
When
On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Chris H. wrote:
Ahh... I'm guessing that you missed the following post in this
thread titled
date/time trouble - PST came too early [fixed] posted 11-02.
LI Xin offered the following solution, which solved my dilemma:
No, I saw that... but like I said, most of
On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote:
I am looking high performance bandwidth manager, traffic shaper for
IP core network to configure leased line, xDSL, Ethernet, GPON/EPON,
wireless subscribers.
You might be able to do it with pfSense (www.pfsense.com)
On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Chris H. wrote:
FWIW The system already knows what timezone it lives in. It simply
chose
to change to PST according to the /normal/ standards. What happened
here
in the USA, is that president Bush decided that we'd be better
served here
if we waited an
On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Greg Black wrote:
Since we're close to a new release, I'm wondering what experience
people
have had recently with running in 64-bit mode. Are most of those
broken
ports now fixed? Or is there some magic that allows building of just
the broken ones in 32-bit
On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
fdisk and bsdlabels both have a limit: because of the way they
store the
data about the disk space they span, they can't store values that
reference space 2 TB. In particular, every partition must start
at an
offset = 2 TB, and cannot be
On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
fdisk and bsdlabels both have a limit: because of the way they
store the
data about the disk space they span, they can't store values that
reference space 2 TB. In particular, every partition must start
at an
offset = 2 TB, and cannot be
On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
What type I/O did you test, random read/writes, sequential writes ?
The performance of RAID group always depends on what software you
run on your RAID group. If it's database, be prepared for many
random read/writes, hence dd(1) tests would
On Aug 18, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote:
Best temper your fear with some thorough testing then. If you are
going
to use ZFS in such a situation, though, I might be strongly tempted to
use Solaris instead.
Why the long gaps between maintenance?
This is a DB server for a 24x7
, I can assign some of the
volumes to the other host(s).
My goal is speed, speed, speed. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 and
using an LSI fibre card.
Thanks for any opinions and recommendations.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Vivek Khera, Ph.D
On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote:
I have 6 SATA-II 300MB/s disks at 3WARE adapter. My (very!) simple
tests gave about 170MB/s for dd. BTW, I tested (OK, very fast)
RAID5, RAID6, gmirror+gstripe and noone get close to RAID10. (Well, as
expected, I suppose).
Whichever RAID
On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
If you want to avoid the long fsck-times your remaining options are a
journaling filesystem or zfs, either requires an upgrade from freebsd
6.2. I have used zfs and had a serverstop due to powerutage in out
area. Our zfs-samba-server came up
On Aug 17, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
Depending on your allowable downtime after a crash, fscking even a
1 TB
UFS file system can be a long time. For large file systems there's
really no alternative to using -CURRENT / 7.0, and either gjournal
or ZFS.
I'll investigate this
How does one interpret these messages?
I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p5 amd64. This machine has 20Gb RAM. The
mpt0 device is an LSI fibre channel card attached to an external RAID
system.
mpt0: Dual LSILogic FC7X04X 4Gb/s FC PCI-Express Adapter port
0xc800-0xc8ff mem
On Jul 20, 2007, at 3:37 AM, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
Other problem that I see is if you are behind NAT/firewall.
Because ntpd make a request and wait for response on different
port, so check your firewall configuration and blocked packets.
we have zero problems with ntpd behind a NAT
On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :)
please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love
to omit CD rom drives on my future systems as the only thing i ever
use them for is install.
On May 27, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Duane Whitty wrote:
Has anyone else encountered local rc scripts running
twice? I thought I saw something about this on one
of the @freebsd.org lists but my search efforts haven't
located it yet.
No, but I have noticed local periodic/daily scripts running twice
On May 27, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
If the above assumption holds true ... did you run the mergebase.sh
script as suggested in /usr/ports/UPDATING ?
Most significantly .. this script adds the following entry to
your /etc/rc.conf
local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d
Hrm...
reconfigure the RAID. Any advice
will be appreciated. Thanks!
I'm running 6.2/amd64 from a fresh CD install.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.Khera Communications, Inc.
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-301
On May 25, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Scott Long wrote:
Look in /sys/conf/NOTES for a long discussion on wiring SCSI device
order.
Thanks! That looks like it should do the trick. I'm assuming those
go into /boot/loader.conf or do they go into the kernel config file
itself? They look like
On May 25, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Michael Proto wrote:
I believe you can use the following in your kernel config:
options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da2s1
Or whatever the appropriate device/slice for your mpt2 controller.
That doesn't seem like it will be of much use since the device unit
On May 25, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:
FWIW, IMO- don't wire- use glabel instead.
That's pretty neat, too!
I think I like this one better since I won't have to make a special
case in my system config file generator for this one host.
On May 25, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:
FWIW, IMO- don't wire- use glabel instead.
Hmmm... minor question: how does one deal with swap partitions?
I tried as a test glabel label -v swap1 /dev/aacd0s2b but it
doesn't show up as a label with glabel list, and trying to stop it
On May 2, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Mars G. Miro wrote:
- front USB ports wont work for a USB keyboard, just use da ports
at da back.
applies to X4100 as well. I think sun just makes them that way :-)
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On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Vlad GALU wrote:
Is there any way to have mount_nullfs working inside the jail?
I mount nullfs from the host, that's how I share the ports
directory across jails.
/me too.
easiest way is to create a file /etc/fstab.jailname with the mount in
it, like
On Mar 25, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Christopher Schulte wrote:
As I understand it now, the user has to manually account for this
at OS
install, and adjust the disk layout accordingly... yes?
when was the last time you ran fdisk and it didn't leave some spare
sectors at the end? i don't think
On Mar 22, 2007, at 9:59 AM, ilya wrote:
Therefore, we need WEB based, not Gnome version. It can use mysql and
php. It's main goal is to serve 2-3 employees. It will be used for the
simple tasks and projects performed by the junior system
administrators.
Take a look at RT
On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:24 AM, LI Xin wrote:
I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-) Maybe we
should add it to DEFAULTS some day...
ew yucky
What I do is keep my kernel configs in subversion. I have a common
component which applies to all systems under my control,
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
What I'd really love to do is split up each service (httpd, postgres,
samba/nfs, ldap/nis, asterisk, etc.) into discrete virtual machines.
It's too much work trying to make them all play nice on one system,
This is the purpose for which we
On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote:
Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be
helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-(
2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step
back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable
On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
Failing that, if you need to preserve anything that is emitted from
the program, nohup is probably your best bet. If it isn't going to
spit anything out on the terminal, take a look at daemon(8), which
you probably will want to run with the
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote:
One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run
on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded
management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make
FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only?
Did you spring for
Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of
sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that
works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with
FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100
seems to fit the
I see on the supported hardware list (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
6.2R/hardware-amd64.html) there are 4 LSI fibre channel cards
supported by the mpt(4) driver. However, over on LSI's web site
(http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/
index.html) the fibre cards
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote:
Another funny thing is that the embedded management software works
under MSIE only. Not exactly what I would expect from Sun. :-)
ew gross.
the description of the LOM on the X2100 claims the functionality is
the same as the ILOM on the
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote:
One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run
on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded
management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make
FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only?
what about
On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sam Baskinger wrote:
The 1950s that I have (IIRC as I installed them a few months ago)
hang at about the same location when ACPI is enabled. I'll see if I
can't pull one down and recreate the behavior. I should note that
I'm running something after 6.2-RELEASE.
On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
Yes, my bad, I spoke too quickly, it does use IP, sorry,
I still find SOL much more descriptive of what I think about
the whole apparatus however :)
:-)
Personally, I really like the Sun ILOM processors, even though they
do boot an embedded
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
Pretty well the same thing we are seeing. Our interrupt rate is a
bit higher as this is a fairly busy DNS server. I am guessing this
is more an issue with the bge driver then a general network issue
as other similarly loaded boxes with em
Is the compiled time zone info file binary compatible across FreeBSD
versions? I have a couple of 4.x and one 5.x box still on my
network, and I was wondering if it was possible to just copy the /etc/
localtime from a new 6.1 box on to all of them rather than having to
install the updated
On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Dominik Zalewski wrote:
I was wondering howto do a SVG-based traffic grapher like they did
in pfSense
project.
pfSense is open source, so download the source and read it... there
are no state secrets in there :-)
On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
I've built a kernel without device fdc on amd64 at least since
5.4 IIRC. I
had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive.
Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive
holds
a lot more data anyway.
I build
On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Oles Hnatkevych wrote:
Hello!
Just cvsup-ed and upgraded to 6.2-STABLE.
The box has hyperthreading processor:
check value of machdep.hyperthreading_allowed sysctl.
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On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Bruce Burden wrote:
Sigh. Okay, thank you for the responses. I think I will
go with Plan 'C', and find a PCI-X LSI MegaRAID card. I think
there is some hope the megamgr port will work with them.
My preferred card is the 320-2X dual channel card.
On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:06 AM, LI Xin wrote:
My newer 2230SLP cards do not work with any extant command line tools
for freebsd under amd64. The older cards did. I've tested
FreeBSD 6.0
and 6.1. 6.2 is on the agenda to test soon.
Do you mean Linux CLI tools on FreeBSD? I think I have
On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:52 AM, LI Xin wrote:
I have some preliminary work on merging the Adaptec driver:
http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-aac-vendor-b11518
But one of the reviewers has advised me to request boarder testing,
especially against old cards and CLI tools, so I
On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote:
When ZFS comes available, I plan to actually run it across multiple
mirrors. It has built in JBOD, but it does not do mirroring. It just
does stripping.
I think you misunderstand ZFS. It is robust against multiple disk
failures. It
On Jan 9, 2007, at 7:39 AM, valiy volodin wrote:
install /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4/
kldload aac_linux
give linux/cmdline/arcconf from Adaptec CD or ftp://deps.ru/pub/
arcconf
and run arcconf GETCONFIG 1
that doesn't work on aac(4) devices. aaccli usually does, and is
native
On Dec 27, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Andrew N. Below wrote:
Latest Adaptec drivers released at 25 Oct 2006, aaccli says Copyright
1998-2002...
Maybe someone already tried to contact Adaptec?
I did a diff of the adaptec sources and the ones in freebsd 6.2-
PRERELEASE and there are mostly minor
On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
Christopher Hilton wrote:
If it's at all possible switch to using public keys for
authentication
with ssh and disallow password authentication. This completely stops
the brute forcing attacks from filling up your periodic security
On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
Now it is near the end of
December, and FreeBSD 6.2 RC2 has yet to be seen anywhere.
Chances are that
FreeBSD 6.2 Release will come out earliest mid-January. This does
not give
much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD
On Dec 17, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I'm double checking with ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER set, to see if I can
get *that*
to work ... but, if anyone has any thoughts on this, please, I'm
all ears ...
I'm sooo close ...
Definitely use ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and turn off the
On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Dave wrote:
We have talked to Sun about it and have not heard back on a fix for
the latest BIOS. We have been given an older version of the BIOS
that does not have this issue.
Which version of bios is the latest that works for you? I have two
of these
On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Dave wrote:
The upgrade to the ILOM card, and consequently the system BIOS,
will not upgrade the LSI card and cause the boot problem that has
been reported by me and others. As far as I know, the problem is
only caused by upgrading the LSI MPT card to version
On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
The other choice would be to make sync [or the sync(2) system call,
more precisely] blocking, so that it does not return until the
buffer cache has been flushed and all dirty pages in VM have been
written to disk.
I would love a flag to
On Nov 15, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Bruce Burden wrote:
I have a 2230SLP that I will be installing early next week
on my AMD64 implementation. I am hoping that the aaccli program
in ports will work.
If it has the newer firmware, it will not work with aaccli. If you
got the card
On Nov 17, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Scott Long wrote:
Yes, scripting it is possible, and it does have a non-interactive
mode.
Try the following:
printf open aac0\ncontroller details\nexit\n | aaccli
I stand corrected. Not sure why it failed so miserably when last I
tested it.
The output
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